Benjamin N. Thompson, of Dunn, N.C, has been elected to the Campbell University Board of Trustees. Thompson is an attorney with Wyrick, Robbins, Yates and Ponton, L.L.P. of Raleigh, N.C. His focus is commercial litigation, government contracting law, construction and labor law.An experienced trial lawyer in both state and federal courts, Thompson has argued cases at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. General Accounting Office and the National Labor Relations Board.Thompson joined the law firm as a partner in 1997 after 18 years of litigation practice. He represents a number of large and medium size government contracting and technology companies and is a member of the American, North Carolina and Wake County Bar associations, as well as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.Thompson is a cum laude graduate of Campbell University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Campbell’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.He is married to the former Patrice Kepley of Lexington, N.C. They are the parents of a son Graham Benjamin Thompson.
Thompson elected to Campbell University Board of Trustees